This report discusses how Denmark - a country whose major agricultural organizations have committed to become carbon neutral by 2050 - can achieve carbon neutral agriculture. The report’s lessons can inform not only Denmark’s agricultural future, but also that of other advanced agricultural economies.
Academics, civil engineers and architects from three of six funds worth £23bn vote to sell off coal and high risk oil and gas – but lawyers, vets and other engineers vote against divestment Academics, civil engineers and architects in Denmark have voted in favour of their pension funds selling off …
The biggest per-capita tallies were in countries known for green awareness, such as Norway and Denmark, with Britain fifth and US ninth on the UN report’s list A record amount of electrical and electronic waste was discarded around the world in 2014, with the biggest per-capita tallies in countries that …
Even exercising in very polluted inner city areas is better than doing no exercise at all, study finds Going for a run or cycling in a built-up area is still better for you than not exercising at all - despite the pollution, claims a new study. Researchers concluded that air …
Air pollution can be a major problem in cities and other locations. More specifically, it can impact a person's health negatively, especially when they're exercising outside. Now, researchers have discovered that the beneficial effects of exercise may actually be more important for our health than the negative effects of air …
Hundreds of thousands of academics, engineers and lawyers in Denmark are set to vote on divesting their €32bn (£23bn) pension funds from the fossil fuels that drive climate change. The first of a series of resolutions will be filed on Monday asking six funds to dump their coal investments by …
Reforms to strengthen the EU’s flagship policy for cutting carbon, the emissions trading scheme (ETS), will start at the end of 2018 following a vote by MEPs on Tuesday. The carbon market is supposed to drive Europe’s transition to cleaner sources of energy, but a cocktail of recession, free allocations …
Apple today announced a $1.7bn plan to build two giant data centres in Europe, both powered by 100% renewable energy. The twin facilities – one in County Galway Ireland and one in central Denmark – will power the European version of Apple's online services, including the iTunes store and Maps. …
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has announced the launch of the Offshore Wind Policy and Market Assessment Outlook. This report is a crucial link to facilitating the development of a roadmap for offshore wind power in India. The report was developed as a part of the FOWIND (Facilitating Offshore …
Hong Kong has dropped out of the world’s top 30 most-livable cities because of poor air quality and social unrest caused by the Occupy Central movement, according to consulting firm ECA International. The city’s livability ranking fell 16 spots to the 33rd, one of the steepest slides in the survey, …
THE CHEAPEST AND cleanest energy choice of all is not to waste it. Progress on this has been striking yet the potential is still vast. Improvements in energy efficiency since the 1970s in 11 IEA member countries that keep the right kind of statistics (America, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, …
A nitrogen (N) budget for Denmark has been developed for the years 1990 to 2010, describing the inputs and outputs at the national scale and the internal flows between relevant sectors of the economy. Satisfactorily closing the N budgets for some sectors of the economy was not possible, due to …
Green champion’s push to funnel car emissions into the emissions trading system seen as attempt to bend rules. A Danish bid to expand carbon offsetting to the transport sector has triggered uproar among NGOs and academics, with one new analysis saying it would devastate efforts to reign in fuel emissions. …
Wind power is blowing gas and coal-fired turbines out of business in the Nordic countries, and the effects will be felt across the Baltic region as the renewable glut erodes utility margins for thermal power stations. Fossil power plants in Finland and Denmark act as swing-producers, helping to meet demand …
Established causes of diabetes do not fully explain the present epidemic. High-level arsenic exposure has been implicated in diabetes risk, but the effect of low-level arsenic exposure in drinking water remains unclear. The researchers sought to determine whether long-term exposure to low-level arsenic in drinking water in Denmark is associated …
The government and Norway, Denmark, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday signed a Framework Document for Energy+ Cooperation to contribute towards achieving sustainable energy for all in Nepal. The four donors extended their support to achieve the goal of providing universal access …
Many preterm infants are not capable of exclusive breastfeeding from birth. To guide mothers in breastfeeding, it is important to know when preterm infants can initiate breastfeeding and progress. The aim was to analyse postmenstrual age (PMA) at breastfeeding milestones in different preterm gestational age (GA) groups, to describe rates …
KATHMANDU: The United States, through its US Agency for International Development, has announced three new programmes worth up to $70 million (approx Rs 6.85 billion), aiming to help Nepali communities recover from natural disasters and other stressors. US Ambassador Peter W Bodde announced the support at a Resilience Summit organised …
Parts of Europe are reaching a "tipping point" where cardiovascular disease is no longer the leading cause of death, a study shows. Four million deaths each year - nearly half the European total - are due to cardiovascular disease. But a report in the European Heart Journal shows improving heart …
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly top the league table of rich nations' well being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking …
